{"id":188512,"date":"2010-09-13T19:45:00","date_gmt":"2010-09-14T00:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/09\/13\/there-is-a-reason-that-i-declared-them-they-who-must-not-be-named\/"},"modified":"2010-09-13T19:45:00","modified_gmt":"2010-09-14T00:45:00","slug":"there-is-a-reason-that-i-declared-them-they-who-must-not-be-named","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/09\/13\/there-is-a-reason-that-i-declared-them-they-who-must-not-be-named\/","title":{"rendered":"There is a Reason that I Declared them &#8220;They Who Must Not Be Named&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>But that hasn&#8217;t stopped the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2010\/09\/10\/voice_of_america\/\">Voice of American from recruiting them to try and pacify angry people in the Middle East<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: #000099;\"><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">In what is evidently an attempt to mitigate the damage caused by Koran-burning pastors, the US government will attempt to dissuade outraged citizens of the Middle East from joining al-Qaeda by beaming Paris Hilton, Kim Kardashian and Britney Spears across the Voice of America&#8217;s airwaves.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">According to Press Gazette, Splash News and Pictures will provide a half-hour weekly show packed with meaty celebutardiness, aimed at winning the hearts and minds of those still undecided whether Holy War or Hollywood is the way to go.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>First, I will note that if VoA is doing this, the Arab world is going to try and beat us to death with their bare hands.<\/p>\n<p>Second, I have not yet put Kim Kardashian on my list of <a href=\"http:\/\/40yrs.blogspot.com\/search\/label\/They%20Who%20Must%20Not%20Be%20Named\">They Who Must Not Be Named<\/a>, but \u2026\u2026\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Wait for it \u2026\u2026\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Wait for it \u2026\u2026\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Wait for it \u2026\u2026\u2026<\/p>\n<p>She is now.<\/p>\n<p>Great googly moogley.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But that hasn&#8217;t stopped the Voice of American from recruiting them to try and pacify angry people in the Middle East: In what is evidently an attempt to mitigate the damage caused by Koran-burning pastors, the US government will attempt to dissuade outraged citizens of the Middle East from joining al-Qaeda by beaming Paris Hilton, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1067,1009,1064,1118,986,982,1082,1015],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-communications","category-government","category-media","category-meta","category-middle-east","category-stupid","category-they-who-must-not-be-named","category-weird"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188512"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188512\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}